Search questions

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Navin Shah AM (Chair): Right. My question is on vaccination hesitancy in BAME communities and to start with, I would like to address my question to Dr Coffey. According to the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), only 57% of BAME people would be willing to take a COVID‑19 vaccine in comparison with 79% of white people. In particular, confidence is reportedly lowest amongst black communities, with some reports of 72% not willing to take the vaccine. The spread of the misinformation and conspiracy theories via social media networks can be identified as one of the causes of this. What...

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Shaun Bailey AM: Thank you, Chair. I will talk to Dr Tom. I really want to follow up on Assembly Member Devenish’s question around what is being done to look at where this misinformation is coming from. There are certain communities, certainly my own, that actually feel like we are under attack. It feels like a very deliberate, very concerted effort to put this misinformation out into our community and I wonder if there is any work being done. I take your comment that it might be slightly outside of your purview, but can you go back and ask for...

• Reference: 2023/1481
• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Is London now receiving its fair share of COVID-19 vaccinations and can we be confident that it will continue to do so over the coming months?